James Wolcott

Critical Mass

Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs

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James Wolcott's career as a critic has been unmatched, from his early Seventies dispatches for The Village Voice to the literary coverage made him equally feared and famous to his must-read reports on the cultural weather for Vanity Fair. Bringing together his best work from across the decades, this collection shows Wolcott as connoisseur, intrepid reporter, memoirist, and necessary naysayer. We begin with O.K. Corral Revisited, Wolcott's career-launching account of the famed Norman Mailer-Gore Vidal dust-off on the original Dick Cavett Show. He goes on to consider (or reconsider) the towering figures of our culture, among them Lena… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7679-3063-5
EAN: 9780767930635
Produktnummer: 19426482
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 528 S.

Über den Autor

James Wolcott is the long-time culture critic and blogger for Vanity Fair. He is most recently the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Lucking Out, and his essays, features, and reviews have appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and numerous other publications. He is also the author of a novel, The Catsitters, and a work of political commentary, Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants. He lives in New York with his wife, the writer Laura Jacobs.